By posting photos, videos, or other content on Tinder, you give Tinder a broad, royalty-free license to use, copy, display, and distribute that content worldwide, even after you leave the platform.
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The provision establishes Tinder's operational authority to repurpose user content across its service infrastructure, including storage, display, advertising, and incorporation into derivative works. The perpetual and transferable nature of the license means these rights persist beyond account termination and can be assigned to successors or acquirers.
Any photos or content you upload to Tinder can be used by Match Group globally without paying you, and potentially without your further consent, which has significant privacy and data implications.
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"By creating an account, you grant to Tinder a worldwide, perpetual, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free right and license to host, store, use, copy, display, reproduce, adapt, edit, publish, translate, modify, reformat, incorporate into other works, advertise, distribute and otherwise make available to the general public Your Content.— Excerpt from Tinder's Tinder Terms of Use
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The provision establishes Tinder's operational authority to repurpose user content across its service infrastructure, including storage, display, advertising, and incorporation into derivative works. The perpetual and transferable nature of the license means these rights persist beyond account termination and can be assigned to successors or acquirers.
Any photos or content you upload to Tinder can be used by Match Group globally without paying you, and potentially without your further consent, which has significant privacy and data implications.
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